Georg Simmel: Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art

Author:   Alan Scott ,  Helmut Staubmann ,  K. Peter Etzkorn ,  Helmut Staubmann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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Pages:   198
Publication Date:   06 June 2005
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Author:   Alan Scott ,  Helmut Staubmann ,  K. Peter Etzkorn ,  Helmut Staubmann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780415926706


ISBN 10:   041592670
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   06 June 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Editor's Introduction: Georg Simmel on Rembrandt: Understanding the Human Beyond Naturalism and ConventionalismChapter One: The Expression of Inner LifeContinuity of Life and the Movement of ExpressionBeing and Becoming in a PortraitThe Series of Portraits and DrawingsReserve and Openness of the Portrait FigureThe Circle in the Depiction of a PersonThe Animation of the PortraitSubjective Realism and the Self-PortraitArtistic ProcreationLife's Past in the PaintingThe Representation of MovementThe Unity of the CompositionClarity and DetailingLife and FormChapter Two: Individualization and the GeneralType and RepresentationTwo Concepts of LifeObservations on the Individuality of Form and on PantheismDeathCharacterBeauty and PerfectionThe Individuality of the Renaissance and of RembrandtTypes of GeneralityThe Art of Old AgeThe Aspatial GazeMoodHuman Fate and the Heraclitean CosmosChapter Three: Religious ArtObjective and Subjective Religion in ArtPietyConcrete Existence and Religious LifeThe Type of Unity in the Religious PaintingsIndividual Religiosity, Mystique and CalvinismInner QualityReligious-artistic CreationLight: Its Individuality and ImmanenceExcursus: What do we see in a work of art?Dogmatic ContentsIn ConclusionThe Capacity to Create and to FashionAntitheses in ArtAppendix

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Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was a German sociologist of high regard. His most famous work, which Routledge also publishes, is The Philosophy of Money. Alan Scott is Professor and Helmut Staubmann is Associate Professor, both in the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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